There's a digital audio player cooked in too, built around a 32-bit flagship decoder from Cirrus Logic for up to 384-kHz playback of formats such as FLAC, OGG, WMA and MP3 – as well as native ...

But wise heads don't always prevail, so when Moondrop thought to bring back the portable CD player, it made sure to bring on board an engineer that had worked on Sony 's original Discman.

But the Sony D-88 was different. It was a portable CD player that was too narrow to fit a CD inside. Yeah, let's back up a little. Your typical compact disc (CD) has a diameter of 120mm, or 4.72 ...

The anti-shock of this unit is far superior to any other mp3-CD player that I've tried. The original RioVolt was unusable when jogging and the RioVolt 250 isn't much better in this regard.

Fiio’s DM-13 Bluetooth CD player has a large square design that resembles a Sony Discman from the late 1980s, even though, by 2001, we had super slim round CD players from iRiver, Panasonic, and ...

This should be possible on most modern CD players with antiskip functionality; it would be interesting to see it in action on a model that can also play back MP3 files from a data CD.

The Discman [sjm] is working with uses a custom, Sony-branded battery based on NiMH technology with a capacity of around 500 mAH. After carefully measuring the dimensions of this battery, it was ...

The DM13 CD player features both a 3.5mm single-ended and a 4.4mm balanced headphone output, which means it should suit a wide range of different headphones. There are dedicated analogue line output, ...

Fast forward to 2023, and the Sony Walkman is now a premium portable music player, as seen in the new NW-ZX707 (USD 899.99) and NW-A306 (USD 349.99) models.

In 1988, Sony endeavored to release a Discman that could actually fit in your pocket. But since a device that can fit a whole, regular-sized CD inside it is virtually always going to be too large ...